Global Capitalism: The Economics of Taxing Wealth [November 2019]

No is not enough

When Donald Trump was elected as the president, only close to 63 million people who voted for him were happy. This is 19.5% of the 323 million population of the United States in 2016. The other 80% were either indifferent, or shocked, or angry; or they were not old enough to vote or care. We don’t know what percent leaned which way. But those who were indifferent, either did not care about the politics, or knew his presidency would be the natural progression of the political condition in this country.

It is a general knowledge that the founding fathers of the United States were slaveholders. Ben Franklin was a dealmaker, who was able to guarantee independence of the United States from the British during the ‎revolution. His son William, however, led an army in favor of the Royalists and against the revolutionaries. He was imprisoned after the success of the revolution, until daddy released him and sent him to England to live there for the rest of his life. The most famous presidents of the United States are George Washington, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt. However, it may not be a common knowledge that Washington became a slave owner at the age of eleven, Wilson was a racist to the core, and Roosevelt’s New Deal was a part of a series of demands by socialists, in which he had to accept or face a revolution. Any of the other presidents’ attitudes towards the majority of people, from Lincoln to Kennedy, to Carter, to Obama, requires a study to realize that their presidency summed up in benefiting a very small minority group, the wealthy. We may grade each president in that respect, however the ‎tendency has been accelerating by each president, with a sharp spike during Reagan’s presidency, when Neoliberalism was adopted. This tendency ended up with the presidency of the multi-billionaire himself.

سخنان زنده یاد دکتر محمد مصدق در دادگاه تجدید نظر نظامی

عدم اعتنا به اصول قوانین اساسی‌ و اجرای آن به ضرر مردم سبب میشود که استعمارگران بتوانند اراده خود را به یک نفر تحمیل کنند. سطح فشار هر قدر وسیعتر باشد اثر فشار نامحسوستر است. اکنون من به جرم همین اظهار نظر و به جرم این که دستخط پادشاه را اجرا نکرده‌ام در یک دادگاه نظامی که هویت آن بر کسی‌ مستور نیست محکوم شده‌ام.

من نه به مال عقیده دارم نه به مقام و هدف من در زندگی‌ یکی‌ است و آن استقلال و عظمت کشور است که به خاطر همین هدف زنده‌ام و کمال سربلندی است که در این راه از بین بروم و خدا را شاکرم که در خلال این سرنوشت تیره و تار که برایم مقدر فرموده است این محاکمه وسیله‌ای شد که پس از پنجاه سال مشروطیت در افکار عمومی‌ این مساله مطرح شود که در رژیم مشروطه و دمکراسی عزل و نصب رئیس دولت که عالیترین مظهر اقتدارات حکومت است، به اراده یک نفر است یا به اراده اکثریت ملت. و شخص غیر مسئول و تغییر ناپذیر آیا میتواند فرمانده مطلق‌العنان باشد و باز هم آن مملکت را مملکت مشروطه بدانند یا نه.

محاکمه من تنها یک امری نیست داخلی‌ چون که نهضت ملی‌ ایران سبب شده که محاکمه جنبه بین‌المللی هم پیدا کند و مورد توجه دنیا قرار بگیرد و همه میخواهند بدانند نتیجه آن به کجا می‌رسد.

چنانچه دادگاه نظامی در معنی‌ و مفهوم مشروطیت شک کند، عقلای عالم و سیاست شناسان معنای مشروطیت را خوب فهمیده‌اند و اگر ببینند که پس از نیم قرن مشروطیت ما، رجال و دادرسان محاکم در الفبای مشروطیت وامانده و مردی را به جرم این که گفته است وزرای دولت و نخست وزیر فقط در مقابل مجلسین مسئولیت دارند، محکوم میکنند، و باز اگر ببینند دولتی که استعمارگران بیگانه را از مملکت بیرون رانده دچار حبس و بند میکنند و ناسزا میگویند، آیا به رشد سیاسی ما چگونه فکر میکنند؟

Trump’s Opposition to ‘Endless Wars’

Trump’s Opposition to ‘Endless Wars’ Appeals to Those Who Fought Them
New York Times: Nov. 1, 2019
By: Jennifer Steinhauer

Tyler Wade was awarded the Purple Heart while serving in Afghanistan, and says he is “proud of everything” he did during his service. He also believes the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan were a mistake, as do a growing number of veterans — from retired generals to those who served across the enlisted ranks, from supporters of President Trump to “resistance” Democrats.

“All in all, it is a lot of wasted lives and money and time and effort spent to accomplish a goal we never accomplished,” said Mr. Wade, 31, who was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan during his five years in the Marines and is now a nursing student in Las Vegas.